Results tagged “richpeople”

• If you got your car towed or ticketed during the uber-failure that was Mayor Nickels' first car-free Sunday, fear not. According to Seattle 911, the city has decided to void the tickets and refund some towing fees.
• Want to know what the view from a nearly $16 million condo (complete with staff quarters) looks like? Follow the links on The Belltowner and prepare to feel very, very poor.
• Speaking of condos, we've found some sick enjoyment in the new local website cheapshitcondos.com. Thanks to Capitol Hill Seattle for reminding us to keep checking it regularly.

This Seattlest finds it slightly alarming that Paul Allen has a functioning fleet of war planes, even if they are vintage ones. Starting this Friday, for a fee--because Paul Allen really needs more money--you can see Allen's private vintage warplane collection. Again the phrase "private warplane collection" makes us quake in our boots just a little bit, and raises all kinds of questions: can Paul Allen launch these war planes from his gigantic boat? How does one begin collecting vintage war planes? Is this just a rich man's version of "boys love their toys?" Is having a fully functioning fleet of bombers the secret to Paul Allen's power? Are they the real reason that NFL and NBA owners would never consider trying to steal the Seahawks or the Trailblazers? Are they his insurance for one day owning all of South Lake Union? (If they won't be bought out, they can be bombed out.) Why is Paul Allen organizing and restoring a fleet of warplanes considered a collection and not an air force? On the other hand, if he ever decides to buy a country, rather than a neighborhood--he's all set for aerial battle.

If you're a Cuban exile somehow randomly transplanted from Miami to Seattle, don't go see The Cook at Seattle Rep. The overwhelming majority of sources (including this play) depict you as pretty angry, and The Cook will only further piss you off. If you're anyone else, go see it--You'll love it, although it may also piss you off. If you're a hipster or, less likely, a commie, dress up in your little Castro hat for the occasion.

There will be plenty to see, do, and hate tomorrow, here is a guide—although we’ll probably end up sleeping in, before re-organizing our photo albums.

University of Washington Athletic Director Todd Turner revealed plans for the new UW football facility yesterday. (You can forget about it being called Husky Stadium anymore--we're on a downhill path toward "Onvia Field at Husky Stadium" or some similarly awful conceit).

We were all set to write a little thing about the minimum wage protest tomorrow and belittle it along the lines of "who cares about the national minimum wage when our state's is already the highest in the country" without knowing anything about it (as is our wont), but we accidentally stopped to read what was being protested.

Professor Jared Diamond might be wicked smaht (said with a proper Bawston accent like his), but he's no Edward Tufte. Stay with us on this one... We've attended one presentation by Tufte, and even considering the potentially drought-worthy material in some people's eyes (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information), he is more entertaining than Space Mountain. Despite the fact that Seattlest is mighty interested in the subject of Diamond's most recent book, that couldn't save his lecture for the Town Hall Science Series last night.

Puget Sound is not that big. It's deep, sure, but there aren't really many (any?) places on the Sound where you can't see land all around you and every ferry run has at one time or another struck Seattlest as very swimmable. Never mind the fact that we've struggled with large lap pools or have been driven to the brink of sanity by those infinity pools. The Sound strikes us as swimmable. So when a helicopter ditches into the Sound we find it hard to believe that it's so difficult to retrieve it. Nobody saw this happen? The entire Sound is surrounded by the living room windows of rich people and not a single one of them spotted a helicopter falling out of the sky? As soon as Seattlest gets our due we're going to get ourselves one of those Puget Sound view windows and we will then devote ourselves entirely to staring out of it. You can be sure when the flaming wreckage of a helicopter plunges into the water like a meteorite that we'll be able to tell investigators, "Yeah, right there. It's swimmable from the end of our pier."

Seattle blogger Defective Yeti is pretty funny. Very funny. Hilarious, actually, and we're not going out on a limb saying that because a panel of judges apparently thinks so as well. It goes without saying that Defective Yeti is much funnier than Seattlest. (To date no panels of judges have even hinted at any humor existing at Seattlest.com.)